THE NEWSDESK: Hold the front page - he wants an apology

NEVER has a man been so sinned against than former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie.

There he was, duped into runnning a front page headlined "The Truth" which wrongly alleged that Liverpool fans stole from the dead, and obstructed and urinated on police at the Hillsborough
disaster. Misled. And continuing to be misled for more than 20 years.

Poor, poor Kelvin. To be so duped and misled for so, so long.

His reputation has been left in tatters - it has been urinated upon - and he's even afraid to walk the streets of Liverpool.

What an ordeal this man has been through.

Get him an apology from those authorities who duped and misled him right now.

Because I am sure that the families of the 96 feel he deserves it. I am sure that they will be starting a petition for him to to have a statue at Lime Street station, so badly has he been duped and
misled.

"Now I know - you know, we all know - that the fans were right.

"But it took 23 years, two inquiries, one inquest and research into 400,000 documents many of which were kept secret under the 30-year no-publication rule..." he wrote in The Spectator.

"Where does that leave me?"

Bleating.

Strangely, Kelvin did not get a sniff of this in August 1989 when the Taylor Report revealed that the Liverpool fans had not done the things which MacKenzie's front page claimed.

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Strangely, he did not think then that he had been duped and misled and refused to apologise for his newspaper's stance.

Having seen the orginal news agency copy sent to The Sun, my newsroom antennae would have been quivering an earthquake warning had I received it.

One-sided, one-sided, one-sided. Journalism 101 - get both sides of a situation, don't present allegations as fact, or publish at your peril.

And those of us in the business know full well where the buck stops in a newsroom. With the editor.

Here's what Margaret Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son James died at Hillsborough, thinks of MacKenzie's plea for an apology: "What does he want an apology for? An apology is exactly what the
families wanted 23 years ago, but he failed to give it.

"He's an absolute disgrace. To even ask for one is ridiculous.

How can he have the temerity to do this?"

Poor, poor Kelvin. Go lick your wounds some place these grieving families don't have to watch.

SO...Cameron on Letterman....

Left me thinking this: Cost of an Eton education: in excess of £30,000 a year. Knowing that Ma and Pa Cameron forked that out for little Dave not to know what Magna Carta was: priceless.

But, still, compare that with the USA's usual political fare. A gem from presidential candidate Mitt Romney: "I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in America that's the
America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love."

Suddenly, Cameron seems like Stephen Hawking.

THE Great Summer Washout of 2012 could soon lead to the Great Pumpkin Shortage of 2012, farmers say.

The pumpkin crop is down 20 per cent on last year and many are still green as Halloween fast approaches.

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Comments (3)

I cannot understand ANYONE buying the SUN newspaper or any of Murdoch's medias. Probably only the illiterate and those who need large print but AREN'T with eye issues, e.g. thickies. Why aren't all these people in Jail anyway ?

I cannot understand ANYONE buying the SUN newspaper or any of Murdoch's medias. Probably only the illiterate and those who need large print but AREN'T with eye issues, e.g. thickies. Why aren't all these people in Jail anyway ?Mervyn James

I cannot understand ANYONE buying the SUN newspaper or any of Murdoch's medias. Probably only the illiterate and those who need large print but AREN'T with eye issues, e.g. thickies. Why aren't all these people in Jail anyway ?

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Katie Re-Registered says...6:07pm Sun 30 Sep 12

The Sun is full of transphobic, homophobic and misogynist sexist rubbish and it's the rest of us who deserve more than an apology from the lies they have marketed throughout the years. To that end, the police should get some guts, march in and close them down! As for Romney - he's guilty of a vile sexually-motivated gang attack upon a student that happened when he was at college. The fact that republican america saw fit to elect a violent, predatory sexual pervert as their presidential candidate is yet another reason why the civilised world should have nothing to do with the so-called United States of America. If Romney cannot be trusted with a pair of scissors then how on earth can he be trusted with being the person with his finger on the nuclear button which could wipe the world out ten times over?!!!

The Sun is full of transphobic, homophobic and misogynist sexist rubbish and it's the rest of us who deserve more than an apology from the lies they have marketed throughout the years. To that end, the police should get some guts, march in and close them down!
As for Romney - he's guilty of a vile sexually-motivated gang attack upon a student that happened when he was at college. The fact that republican america saw fit to elect a violent, predatory sexual pervert as their presidential candidate is yet another reason why the civilised world should have nothing to do with the so-called United States of America. If Romney cannot be trusted with a pair of scissors then how on earth can he be trusted with being the person with his finger on the nuclear button which could wipe the world out ten times over?!!!Katie Re-Registered

The Sun is full of transphobic, homophobic and misogynist sexist rubbish and it's the rest of us who deserve more than an apology from the lies they have marketed throughout the years. To that end, the police should get some guts, march in and close them down! As for Romney - he's guilty of a vile sexually-motivated gang attack upon a student that happened when he was at college. The fact that republican america saw fit to elect a violent, predatory sexual pervert as their presidential candidate is yet another reason why the civilised world should have nothing to do with the so-called United States of America. If Romney cannot be trusted with a pair of scissors then how on earth can he be trusted with being the person with his finger on the nuclear button which could wipe the world out ten times over?!!!

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Limestonecowboy says...8:27pm Sun 30 Sep 12

Katie Re-Registered wrote…

The Sun is full of transphobic, homophobic and misogynist sexist rubbish and it's the rest of us who deserve more than an apology from the lies they have marketed throughout the years. To that end, the police should get some guts, march in and close them down! As for Romney - he's guilty of a vile sexually-motivated gang attack upon a student that happened when he was at college. The fact that republican america saw fit to elect a violent, predatory sexual pervert as their presidential candidate is yet another reason why the civilised world should have nothing to do with the so-called United States of America. If Romney cannot be trusted with a pair of scissors then how on earth can he be trusted with being the person with his finger on the nuclear button which could wipe the world out ten times over?!!!

should you not be putting in 'alleged?' ... don't forget the US voted in George W. Bush!!

[quote][p][bold]Katie Re-Registered[/bold] wrote:
The Sun is full of transphobic, homophobic and misogynist sexist rubbish and it's the rest of us who deserve more than an apology from the lies they have marketed throughout the years. To that end, the police should get some guts, march in and close them down! As for Romney - he's guilty of a vile sexually-motivated gang attack upon a student that happened when he was at college. The fact that republican america saw fit to elect a violent, predatory sexual pervert as their presidential candidate is yet another reason why the civilised world should have nothing to do with the so-called United States of America. If Romney cannot be trusted with a pair of scissors then how on earth can he be trusted with being the person with his finger on the nuclear button which could wipe the world out ten times over?!!![/p][/quote]should you not be putting in 'alleged?' ... don't forget the US voted in George W. Bush!!Limestonecowboy

Katie Re-Registered wrote…

The Sun is full of transphobic, homophobic and misogynist sexist rubbish and it's the rest of us who deserve more than an apology from the lies they have marketed throughout the years. To that end, the police should get some guts, march in and close them down! As for Romney - he's guilty of a vile sexually-motivated gang attack upon a student that happened when he was at college. The fact that republican america saw fit to elect a violent, predatory sexual pervert as their presidential candidate is yet another reason why the civilised world should have nothing to do with the so-called United States of America. If Romney cannot be trusted with a pair of scissors then how on earth can he be trusted with being the person with his finger on the nuclear button which could wipe the world out ten times over?!!!

should you not be putting in 'alleged?' ... don't forget the US voted in George W. Bush!!

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